Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/3] builtin/show.c: do not prune by pathspec

Johannes Sixt venit, vidit, dixit 31.03.2011 12:18:

Am 3/31/2011 11:17, schrieb Michael J Gruber:

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By design, "git show commit -- path" is not "git show commit:path", and
there is no reason to change that. But "git show commit -- path" simply
returns nothing at all "most of the time" because it prunes by pathspec
even though it does not walk commits. This is pretty useless.

So, turn off pruning (but keep diff limiting of course) so that "git
show commit -- path" shows the commit message and the diff that the
commit introduces to path (filtered by path); only the diff will be
empty "most of the time".

How does this interfere with git show --walk commit -- path? Will it now
show all commits instead of just those that changed path?

Hmpft,

git show --walk origin/master
fatal: unrecognized argument: --walk

No, that is without my patch ;)

In other words: "ENOPARSEOPTS in revision.c", there is no "--walk".

Michael